Programming Speed Step CV's

[cliffsrr]

Without going into DecoderPro or some other program, What is the best procedure for programming speed steps. The bare bones on track or programming track settings.

Cliff

[locoworks]

your instruction book will tell you how to do it for your system,but there is no quick easy way of doing all the CV speed steps without a computer program to help.  it is a pain and you will need to keep a pen and paper record to remind you where you're upto and it will assist when it comes to adjusting and fine tuning.

[locoi1sa]

  Depending on decoder make some will not support CV5 and CV6. But heres the easy setup for straight line acceleration. CV29 first to 34. This will give you 28 or 128 speed steps, Four digit address,Straight line acceleration and analog (DC) control off.

  Then CV2 adjust to get the loco moving slowly.

  Then CV5 to 255. That will give you full throttle at speed step 28/128.

  Then CV6 to 128.

   This will give you what you asked for.

       Pete
 

[wjstix]

If your decoder supports CV 2,5 and 6 you can often just use that. If you've set it as locai1sa suggests, and the engine goes to fast, you can reduce CV 5 and 6. If you reduce 5 (max power) to 180 and 6 (half power) to 90, the decoder in effect fills in the intervening steps on a straight line curve.

[MisterBeasley]

If you're looking for more realistic acceleration and braking, then adjust CV's 3 and 4, respectively.  I usually start them out at 10, and then tweak them based on how the engine performs.  With these two CV's set up, you can dial in the desired speed on your throttle, and the engine will slowly speed up to get there, rather than "jumping" right up to speed.  Likewise, you can crank your throttle right down to zero, and the engine will slow down more realistically.